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Drag, drop and type. Ooh let's do that again. Drag, drop and type. What the heck could this be about? [Read more ...]

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Resolution Inc.  in Burlington

Reporting Analyst
  As Reporting Analyst, this position will be responsible for the design, programming, and analysis of reports / applications to support Resolution’s external and internal customers. Relational database experience and data analysis skills are required, as is a great team attitude. At least 3 years professional experience required. Experience with IBM AS400, Oracle, SQL, and MS Access preferred. Relational database experience and data analysis skills are required, as is a great team attitude. At least 3 years professional experience required. Experience with IBM AS400, Oracle, SQL, and MS Access preferred.

Internet Systems Architect
Resolution, Inc. is seeking an experienced, high-concept, solutions sales person to expand its considerable presence in the broadcast, publishing, educational and association markets.

 Necessary Skills: -Strong HTML & CSS skills -Strong Javascript skills including AJAX and JSON experience -Ruby programming ideally including Ruby On Rails -Experience implementing redundant file, database and application services -General web tools and languages (Python, PHP, Perl, etc.) -Experience directing a small team in a fast paced environment -Database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) -Unix / Linux system setup and administration skills -Experience with system monitoring and management tools (Nagios, BigSister, etc.) -Systems and procedure documentation (samples required).

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The January CTP install notes recommend installing the WinFX components before VS2005, but according to Michele Leroux Bustamante, who has done a LOT of work with WCF, if you are working with the newer (non go-live) February CTP  release, it's okay to install all of theWinFX ontop of VS2005. This is great to know because I can store a copy of a VPC with WinXp and VS2005 already installed, then use it when testing new WinFX bits as they are released.

See Michele's blog post for links and installation order.

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My husband read the CNN article this morning about the Windows Vista delay. Reading "Unlike the current Windows XP, there will be no versions designed specifically for advanced 64-bit computing, multimedia computers or Tablet PCs" he interpreted that as no TabletPC capability for Vista, which is not true at all. In fact, he knows that I am using Vista on a tablet, but thought that it was going to be removed.

TabletPC functionality is built into Vista and will not be separate. That's all this means.

I wonder how many others will misinterpret that sentence?

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It seems like just yesterday that I was asking around about how Atlas interacts with WS-Security and other WS* compliant web services created using tools like WSE or WCF. And woudntchaknowit! The Atlas version that was released just yesterday has WCF extensions built right in for seamless communication with WCF.

Oddly, I came across the link on the Atlas site today not knowing that it wasa brand spanking new page, and therefore was feeling  a bit embarrassed that I had completely missed this before!

It wasn' until I saw Steve Maine's post that I realized it hadn't been up there for long!

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My sister called today as they were driving through the Mojave Desert on their way to San Diego. She told me that she saw a sign at a gas station that said "Last chance to pee." Seriously.

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Watching the Tim O'Reilly/Bill Gates conversation on the Virtual MIX website, I was struck by Gates encapsulating the direction of software as "the internet as an operating system". [Read more ...]

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I was just on the MSDN Speakers page to grab a pic of Burlington based Susan Wisowaty who is one of the MSDN DCC's and noticed something really fun that they have done to the site.

All of the DCCs have straight photos - serious and wearing their Microsoft shirts. But when you hover the mouse over the pictures, you see a real picture of that person. Bernard Wong competing with the sun in an ultra-bright t-shirt (you can always pick him out in a crowd!) ; Susan in her moto-cross gear , Russ Fustino in his tool-man garb, Rory Blyth being, well, Rory; and more. It's really fun since I know a bunch of these folks. Go check it out!

Susan will be presenting on Avalon (WPF) at our July 17th Vermont.NET meeting. Before she worked for Microsoft, she showed up at meetings in her leathers more than once!

Between the weblogs.asp.net feed and a variety of other individual feeds that I am subscribed to, I'm getting lots of good info streaming in from Mix.

My favorite comment so far was by Andrew Stopford who noted that everyone's reading name badges as they pass each other ("do I know him?" "do I know her?" "should I?") but that Tim O'Reilly read his badge but kept walking. Heck, I would have expected the same. Though the day Bill Gates stops on the stairway to say "Hey, Julie! I've been hoping to meet you someday!" is the day that I can say "my work here's been done" and go back to being a potter and pursue my other life dream at the same time.

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In addition to sharing all of the great computer and programming knowledge that breeds in his amazing brain, Scott Hanselman has always been very "out" about his diabetes in an effort to share his lessons, spread what knowedge he can and aid in pushing the envelope with respect to the technology that exists for those with diabetes.

Now Scott, his wife and Team Hanselman are walking in a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. There are a lot of reasons to support him in this, whether it's in thanks for all that he has done for your own personal programming skills, his contributons to the .NET community, because Scott's just a great guy or even just to support a really good cause.

Read more on Scott's blog and find out how to help Team Hanselman acheive their goal of raising $10,000.

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We all now google as in "go google it".

But I learned a new usage for google as a verb: "we've been googled" as in Google bought the company. No, not *my* company.

But here's a coupla happy guys from Boulder Colorado who's company, @Last, makers of SketchUp, got Googled thanks to an add-on for Google Earth!

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Has this ever happened to you? An idea pops into your head and you open up your web browser to check it out. But because the home page of your web browser is pointed to a news website, the minute you see the home page filled with news (good and bad) you completely forgot what it was that you had meant to look up only one second ago.

This happens to me way too often.

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Two new contests were announced.

Made in Express  $10,000 for the most clever app written in VS2005 Express and/or SQL Server 2005 Express.

Mash it Up with Atlas Smartphones and XBOX 360's are the giveaways for getting up to your eyeballs with Atlas and doing something cool. The newest Atlas CTP was just released, too! more on atlas.asp.net.

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Michele Leroux Bustamante has posted code samples from her sessions at SD West. The posts keep coming and coming. I think she did something like 40 sessions! Not really, but it looks like she did 5 regular sessions and 2 half day sessions. I do not know how on earth she manages that. It must be an IDesign thing, since Michele and Brian Noyes and Juval Lowy also do a zillion talks each at DevConnections.

Speaking of DevConnections - it's only in 2 more weeks! April 2-5. I'll be doing three talks this time, Advanced Data Access in ADO.NET 2.0, Building WSE 3.0 Secured Web Services that can talk to WCF and Five Supposedly Scary things in .NET. I have taken liberties with the actual session titles, but that's the gist of it. There is going to be a lot of amazing content.

At the end of the month, Michele and I get together again, along with Jason Beres, Scott Hanselman and Bill Hatfield to present a full day of talks at Deeper in .NET in Milwaukee. This is a full day user group event put on by the WI.NET Users Group.

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From Larry O'Brien's blog:

SD Magazine: R.I.P.

Oh well. The writing had been on the wall, but today it's official: Software Development magazine, which I founded in 1992, has been absorbed by Dr. Dobb's Journal and will cease publication. Ironically, SD was born when Dr. Dobb's absorbed Computer Language after Miller Freeman (now CMP) bought DDJ. Between the two events, that means more than 150,000 subscribers who signed up for Computer Language or Software Development and winded up with DDJ. Just saying. Larry also has some follow up posts: The Imminent Death of Developer's Magazines Commenting on a blog post by Eric Sink Why DDJ Won't Change:Commenting on a blog post by Joel Spolsky

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DevSource has started  new video interview series called Great Minds in Development. This is not more podcasts featuring our friends in the .NET community chatting away, but interviews with some of the thought leaders in the development world. The first video is online... [read more ...]

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My parents had to put down one of their dogs earlier this week. Beautiful Inka. Two days later, the owners of Alex, one of Inka's brothers, had to put him down, too. Inka and Alex were 10 1/2 which is pretty old for a newfie. They were from a litter of 13 that I will never forget -good ol' Pippa had all those puppies all at once.

We put a little rememberance of Inka and Alex on the home page of my parent's kennel website.My mom, dad and I had fun writing this and giggling about these beautiful dogs who have such big personalities. So much easier than bawling some more. www.blueheavennewfoundlands.com

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People always ask me what we do up here in Vermont. Well, here are FOUR jobs related to .NET so we aren't just boiling syrup and milking the cows all day, y'know! I noticed these local IT jobs in 7Days this week. One is a .NET Developer job that I have posted before. Here's a link right to 7Days classifieds for IT jobs.

1) I see my favorite local software company, Synergy is hiring again. I worked there when they were just porting to VB6 and frustrated because .NET was released while they were in the middle of it. But now they are looking for .NET developers. Yay!

2) Blue House Group - a local consulting company that does great work and is in hip little Richmond, VT (12 miles from Burlington) has a web designer positions (as well as a few other jobs). They are also knee deep in .NET at Blue House along with the other technologies they use.

3) HazMed has a .NET Developer (C#) postion that is in 7Days but not on their website. They do have a SysAdmin job on their website.

4) ASP Developer wanted (.NET skills a plus) at CPA Site Solutions.

 

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TFS was released today for those that have been waiting. I know someone in my user group was asking about this recently. More from Soma.

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